Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three decades in public life. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller has a well-earned reputation as a shrewd, tough, skillful operator. But when he was sworn in as Vice President, Rockefeller also be came the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, and the moment he entered that historic chamber he was, as he frankly admitted, the new boy on the block...
Ford also hoped to talk some conservative Southern Democrats into changing their votes. That strategy failed for a totally unanticipated reason: the conservatives' outrage over the intrusion of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller into the fight over making it easier to cut off Senate filibusters. Although Ford discussed the issue with Rockefeller, he was not directly involved in the Vice President's actions. One Administration lobbyist concluded that "a lot of conservatives are inclined to take out their frustrations on the President." At one point in the Senate debate, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long reddened with anger and declared...
Ford gave his final speech of the week at a $175-a-plate dinner in Manhattan in honor of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. The President chided Congress for opposing his foreign policy as well as his economic program. He drew on another historical figure, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to emphasize the need for a bipartisan foreign policy. A onetime Republican isolationist, Vandenberg persuaded members of his own party to support Truman's interventionist policy. "I do not expect 535 reincarnations of Senator Vandenberg," said Ford. "But I challenge the Senate and the House to give me the same consideration...
President Ford chose a fitting occasion, a Manhattan dinner honoring Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to provide an answer to one of Washington's most intriguing questions: How much power does he intend to give the former New York Governor? The answer, certain to further irk Ford's restive conservative critics, was in effect...
...year-old Norwegian maid, her employers, the Nelson Rockefellers, were very odd. One night, when they were late, she left dinner on the stove and went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they...